Conference Information, Reports and Updates

The Interfaith March for Peace & Justice was initiated by a small group of people in Columbus, OH. Here, people of all ages and colors and faiths marched on April 2, 2017, shoulder to shoulder with some who have no religious affiliation but were moved by a sense of urgency and civic pride. On April 29, 2018, the march in Columbus was repeated along with sister marches across the country.Read more here: https://uujec.com/interfaithMa...

Healthcare Justice is a UU Value.
The Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) and the Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) hosted a three-day conference for UUs to learn and share best practices for healthcare justice and advocacy in Washington DC. Our partnership enabled UU’s to get involved with the latest campaigns against inequality, and visit lawmakers to influence positive change. UU’s from 16 different states traveled to DC to gather in solidarity and defense of disenfranchised and marginalized members of our national community.Read more here: https://uujec.com/ReversingIne...

Dragons, parrots, fish, stars and stripes cavorted about the Washington Monument. People of all ages and colors, string in hand. An orchard of blooming cherry trees in Foggy Bottom, pink petals fluttering upward in the breezes like the kites. Easily a million strollers on The Mall - joyful meanderers, school break classes, families buying Thai, Mexican and Filipino lunches from food trucks. Celebration not protest...Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

On September 10th Ventura Stories, co-sponsored by UUJEC, held a conference targeting to raise awareness and motivate participants to support increased funding for education in California. The conference in Ventura County CA. featured participants sharing stories of their own educational experience and experts explaining the current state of education in California as well as the history of funding.Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

“Revolt of the Struggling Classes” Well, we at UUs for a Just Economic Community can say to our fellow UUs and to America, “We told you so!” We told you that the smoke-and-mirrors economic policies that both US political parties have employed for years would one day create a monster. Not only a monster such as the financial meltdown of 2008, but the sort of demagogues that appear in times of extreme economic distress.Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

The UUJEC worked in partnership with several local sponsors to host “Ventura Stories: Economic Justice in Ventura County” a workshop to address social injustice and economic inequity in Ventura County, California. Key organizers from the community, and leadership within my congregation, the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, ensured that the dialogue between the very diverse group of participants, showed the human face of social injustice and inequity where we live.Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

"Get a Tank" 43 years ago, the social activist and historian Howard Zinn began an address with a few choice words to his audience about where he was coming from philosophically; words I find fitting to share as I begin my own remarks to you this morning.Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

"Eight Tax Policies that Unitarian Universalists Should Back" 1. Restore Income Tax Progressivity. Taxes on the wealthy have steadily declined over the last fifty years. If the 1 percent paid income taxes at the same actual effective rate as they did in 1961, the U.S. Treasury would receive an additional $231 billion a year. Taxes on higher income and wealth reached their zenith in the mid-1950s...Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

"UU's Thaw in Chicago Over Inequality Flames" One hundred thirty nine UUs from 14 states gathered at the UU Church of Evanston, Il the weekend of Feb. 20th for workshops, key note speakers, and networking on the theme of Escalating Inequality, the new CSAI adopted by the 2014 GA. The event was organized by the UUs for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC).Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

"A (Post)-Theological Grounding for Economic Justice Work" Think for a moment about the costs and benefits of stealing an entire hemisphere. Sure, there are costs: murdering several hundred million people isn’t cheap, but think of the value that accrued to what we nowadays call the Eurozone, beginning in 1492 and continuing to today...Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

"The Opposite of Poverty is not Wealth. It is Justice"
Most people have heard the Groucho Marx line, “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would accept me.” Did you know that Groucho said this as the result of a specific event. His daughter had gone to a country club with a group of friends to swim in the pool. The Marxs were not members of the club, and his daughter, Melinda, was not allowed to swim in the pool.Read more here: http://uujec.com/Portals/0/PDF...

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